INDEX.
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Doane, T. W. (Thomas William)
Vernal equinox, the, festivals held at the time of, by the nations of antiquity, 392.
Vespasian, the Miracles of, 268, 269.
Vestal Virgins, the, were bound by a solemn vow to preserve their chastity for a space of thirty years, 403.
Vicar of God on Earth, the Grand Lama of the Tartars considered to be the, 118.
Vila, the god, of the Scandinavians, changed to St. Valentine, 399.
Virgin, the worship of a, before the Christian era, 326.
Virgo, the, of the Zodiac personified as a Virgin Mother.
Vishnu, appeared as a fish, at the time of the Deluge, 25;
the mediating or preserving God in the Hindoo Trinity, 369.
Votan, of Guatemala, 130.
Votive offerings, given by the Heathen to their gods, and now practiced by the Christians, 258, 259.
Vows of Chastity, taken by the males and females who entered Pagan monasteries, 402, 403.
W.
War in Heaven, the, believed in by the principal nations of antiquity, 368.
Wasi, the priest and law-giver of the Cherokees, 130.
Water, purification from sin by, a Pagan ceremony, 317-323.
Wednesday, Woden's or Odin's day, 393.
Welsh, the, as late as the seventeenth century, during eclipses, ran about beating kettles and pans, 536.
West, the sun-gods die in the, 493.
Wisdom, Ganesa the god of, 117.
Wise Men, worshiped the infant Jesus, 150;
worshiped the infant Crishna, 151;
worshiped the infant Buddha, 151;
and others, 151, 152.
Wittoba, the god, crucified, 185.
Wodin, or Odin, the supreme god of the Scandinavians, 393.
Wolf, the, an emblem of the Destroying power, 80.
Word, or Logos, the, of John's Gospel, of Pagan origin, 374.
World, the, destroy by a deluge, whenever all the planets met in the sign of Capricorn, 103.
X.
Xaca, born of a Virgin, 119.
Xelhua, one of the seven giants rescued from the flood, 37.
Xerxes, the god of, is the devil of to-day, 391;
the Zend-avesta older than the inscriptions of, 452.
Xisuthrus, the deluge happened in the days of, 22;
was the tenth King of the Chaldeans, 23;
had three sons, 23;
was translated to heaven, 90.
X-P, the, was formerly a monogram of the Egyptian Saviour Osiris, but now the monogram of Christ Jesus, 350.
Y.